Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi (b. 1988) is an artist based in the Milky Way, whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Collaborating with characters in search of consciousness, language, and freedom, her recent body of work explores the aesthetic, political, and epistemological possibilities of image and sound.  

Nguyen-Chi’s work has been presented in both the art and cinema context, including Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; New York Film Festival; and Singapore International Film Festival. Forthcoming exhibitions, performances, and screenings include Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York; Migros Museum, Zürich; and Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva. In 2023, Nguyen-Chi was awarded the Golden Lola and Jury Grand Prix for the film Into The Violet Belly. She is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster.

Dalena Tran (b. 1992, US) investigates how digital systems and media ecologies shape collective imagination through film, installation, and interactive media. Her work finds poetry in everyday tensions between the virtual and embodied, between surveillance and expression, and between play and pause.  

Tran’s work has been screened and presented at MoMA PS1, New York; 12th Berlin Biennale; ICA London with research support from Serpentine Arts Technologies, RadicalxChange, Antikythera and the Berggruen Institute. Tran has taught courses in Media Arts and Technology at institutions including CalArts and UCLA. 

Andrew Yong Hoon Lee (b. 1982, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and composer. His work often culminates within an installation where relationships between media create affective intensities of sensorial experience that examine the poetic, the political and the philosophical possibilities of light, space and sound.

Lee received a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York. He has presented work, texts, lectures and performances with the Center for Performance Research, New York; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; The Stone, New York; Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg; The Poetry Project & Wendy’s Subway, New York; The Vancouver Art Gallery; The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Vancouver; Kinoskop International Analog Film Festival, Belgrade; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Radio Alhara, Bethlehem; and Fridman Gallery, New York, among others. 

There’s enough light to drown in but never enough to enter the bones 

2025

Moving image and sound installation, dimensions variable
Presented with the support of ifa, Institut für AuslandsbeziehungenCommissioned by Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. 

The work centres around a sculptural structure affixed to the building’s ventilation system. Sound and film emanate from within, weaving through a network of tubes, and expanding the installation’s sensory and conceptual terrain. The film unfolds as a collage where aerial shots are interlaced with footage from films and documentaries – Moving (1993), Far from Vietnam (1967), The Twentieth Century: End of an Empire (TV Series, S5. E23) – digital renderings, and archival material.  

Its conceptual origin lies in a moment of resilience, the story of German mathematician Alexander Grothendieck (1928-2014) who during the Vietnam War gave lectures to young mathematicians in a forest near Hanoi. In constructing a “subterranean space” for abstract thought, Grothendieck and his students resisted imperialist forces that claimed dominion from above. In acting despite forces that might suppress or constrain, the work lingers between memory and the hope of another future. 

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi (b. 1988) practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Dalena Tran (b. 1992, US) investigates how digital systems and media ecologies shape collective imagination through film, installation, and interactive media. Andrew Yong Hoon Lee (b. 1982, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and composer. 

Read more about the work, in the artists’ words, here 

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